The Arizona sentinel., 1887-04-30
INTELLIGENT DOGS.

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 Act of Hospitality-A Musical Dog.
 A certain person who was highly praising an animal, being asked what remarkable qualities it possessed, re- piled ''It is ours" No matter how de- ficient dog may be in all good traits, his master will readily acknowledge the force of his recommendation.
 The experiments of Sir John Lub- book, an account of which has recently been published, show that dogs possess considerable capacity for learning the meaning of words. Many anecdotes on this subject might, no doubt, be col lected. Rover belonged to a gentle man in the neighboring town of Union. One morning a surveyor, who was boarding with his master and was about leaving upon one of his daily ex- petitions, was told that Rover might accompany him. The dog heard the permission granted and needed no further invitation. Having waited until the surveyor came from the house, much to that gentleman's surprise, he immediately followed him, though this had never happened before.
 A still more remarkable case oc- cured in Bremen. A small, shaggy dog, Dick by name, was accused of killing a sheep, and was condemned on the morrow to lose his life. Having listened to his sentence, Dick suddenly disappeared. travelling twenty miles to the town of Washington, where he pre- sented himself at the house of his masters father-in-law. He was nat urally supposed to have preceded some of the family. and their non-appear- ance occasioned not little surprise. Some two weeks later his former master drove up to the door, and was warmly welcomed by Dick; but when, at the close of his visit he prepared to take his departure, the dog had again disappeared. Dick never returned. His confidence had received blow from which it never rallied, and to the end of his life he remained at his adopted home. A dog belong bO OA hAO writer killed a pet rabbit. The offense was duly explained and its en- ormity pointed out. Ever after, when the rabbit was mentioned before him, he would hang his head, look extreme ly sheepish, and, if possible, sneak out of the room.
 The lower animals, except when the parental instinct is dominant, are su- premely selfish. Nature has taught them, by severe competition. that, if they would live at all, each must live solely for himself. A genuine act of hospitality, however, on the part of one dog to another, was related to me by clergyman, who heard the story from one of his parishioners. A powerful mastiff was accustomed to conceal fragments of food in a snow drift against some future exigency. One day he was observed to proceed thither accompanied by a smaller friend, and to wait patiently until his guest had satisfied his hunger. Then he carefully recovered the remnants, and trotted away as though playing the host was an every day affair.
 Shepherd dogs evince wonderful memory by their ability to recognize every member in large flock of sheep. We know of dog that would instantly distinguish the chickens of a neighbor from those of his master, and, until broken of the habit; would summarily punish any tresspassing of the former by wringing their necks. So, too, sagacious farm dog will remember cat tie even after months of absence.
 Probably the best known dog story of antiquity is the account from the Odyssey, of how Ulysses, returning from the ten-year siege of Troy, is recognized only by his aged and decrepit dog. Here is not bad paral- Tel of this ancient tale. A frequent companion of mine, when a boy. was large, shaggy dog of peculiar bluish color. His unusual sagacity made him at once an excellent guar dian and playfellow. He would climb a perpendicular ladder to the hayloft, and enjoyed the game of "hide and seek'' as fully as any boy. Shortly aft CT his purchase. while still young puppy, his master, the writer's uncle, sailed on a voyage, the duration of which was about year and half On his return Rover welcomed him but coldly. It was not expected, indeed, that he would remember a person whom he had known at so early an age and for so short time. Something, however, about the stranger puzzled the dog as he crouched near by and began to call up old associa- tions; his ears, tail, every move ment, showed this. Suddenly he sprang up, leaped upon his master again and again in an ecstasy of de light which seemed to say that he knew him at last, and wanted to atone for the coldness of his first greeting.
 I formerly owned dog whose musical proclivities dismsyed the bold est of itinerant musicians. No sooner was hand-organ heard in the vicinity